Number of Maiar - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Afrodal Fenyar · 11-16-2002, 05:26 AM

So, how many Maiar there actually were in Arda? Is anywhere told anything of it? I first thought that there were hundreds, maybe thousands of them, but now that I think again, it would seem more logical if there were less than hundred. It just would suit better.

And other question is; were there more Maiar serving Melkor than the Valar? It seems that Melkor had many Maiar as his servants during his reign of Middle-Earth from Utumno. And the evil is almost always the mightier one, so that would say that Melkor had more. But always when he fought with the Valar, he was defeated.

So that would actually say that the Valar had more, and that there were at least hundreds of Maiar servin them, but bnah.

11-16-2002, 05:26 AM	#1
Afrodal Fenyar Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 94	Number of Maiar So, how many Maiar there actually were in Arda? Is anywhere told anything of it? I first thought that there were hundreds, maybe thousands of them, but now that I think again, it would seem more logical if there were less than hundred. It just would suit better. And other question is; were there more Maiar serving Melkor than the Valar? It seems that Melkor had many Maiar as his servants during his reign of Middle-Earth from Utumno. And the evil is almost always the mightier one, so that would say that Melkor had more. But always when he fought with the Valar, he was defeated. So that would actually say that the Valar had more, and that there were at least hundreds of Maiar servin them, but bnah. __________________ "Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!" ~Eomer